Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
LEON TROTSKYThe end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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